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Anthropic has announced Claude Fable 5 as a public-facing version of its Mythos-class model, paired with a safety design that routes some higher-risk requests elsewhere. The release matters not just because of the model claims, but because it shows where frontier AI deployment is heading: broader access, narrower permissions, and far more explicit controls.
The news I got over the weekend struck like lightning: Nicki has died. All of us who were close to him expected it, but secretly hoped that something, somewhere in the universe would shift just a little and turn everything into a bad dream with a happy ending. But things don't work that way.
A corporate dissolution, a rival striking a compute deal, and a signal about where AI value is moving.
Week three of the Oakland trial has put the architecture of enterprise AI's most consequential partnership on the public record.
The new hub at aka.ms/m365migrationdocs covers external-platform and tenant-to-tenant scenarios across email, files and chat.
Channels, messages, attachments, canvases and membership are in scope today. DMs, group chats and Loop integration are on the roadmap.
A preview rebrands and reworks the old Query Activity into Data Warehouse Monitor — folding running queries, historical analysis, and query cancellation into one view.
Microsoft's latest Copilot UI rework moves the entry point out of the ribbon, adds context-aware prompt suggestions, and quietly tightens up keyboard and screen-reader support across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
A French lab 20x'd its ARR in a year by treating "smaller than OpenAI" as a feature, not a bug.
Microsoft's Foundry Hosted Agents aim to take the operational headache out of shipping Agent Framework agents — though it's still preview territory.
A preview API brings columnar binary results, multi-EVALUATE queries, and much higher row limits to anyone integrating with semantic models.
A unified view of AI risk across Defender, Entra, and Purview is finally here — but the value depends on how you use it.
In April 2026, Mozilla shipped fixes for 423 security bugs in Firefox. The month before, it was 76. The month before that, 61. Across all of 2025, the average sat between 17 and 31 a month. So something happened — and Mozilla isn't being coy about it. The "something" was a restricted-access Anthropic model called Claude Mythos Preview, paired with an agentic harness Mozilla's engineers built to put it to work.
OpenAI just put GPT-5-class reasoning inside the audio loop, took the Realtime API to GA, and priced translation at a third of a cent per minute. The voice agent stack everyone built last year suddenly looks expensive.
Scaling pilots, smarter scheduling, structured ops messaging, and hands-free inspections — Microsoft's latest frontline drop is more practical than flashy.
A modern, production-ready replacement for full-fidelity mailbox migration is finally here, with caveats worth reading before you commit.
"ECS 2027 will be something different. We are unifying all three summits into one single event. One ticket, one community, one largest Microsoft business and technology event in Europe.". But the link still offers "ECS Pass" and "ECS All Sessions pass" with different prices ?
A CLI-based evaluation framework signals that "ship it and hope" is no longer good enough for Copilot agents.
ECS 2027 is heading to CCD Düsseldorf, 31 May - 02 June, and we're opening the doors with a thank-you to the community that built this event. Lock in your seat for €325 instead of €895 (that's our Community Early Bird!), no strings attached. Expect again 3,000+ attendees, 250+ sessions, and the worlds best speakers.
Offer ends 15 May 2026.
Click here to register:
https://csmmt.eu/ecs2027reg
A region-by-region read on Microsoft's latest infrastructure update — and why sovereignty, latency, and multi-region design are climbing the priority list.
As announced at the closing, everyone will be able to choose a preferred topic for themselves, and will be able to upgrade their ticket with additional topics for prices that will be smaller than upgrades that were between different summits this year. Plus, until now we couldn't have cross-summit topics, such as "security", and attendees who wanted just security sessions effectively had to buy tickets for all three summits. Now that will not be the case any more. All tickets pass is still there.
Still unclear: so chosing between ECS Passes with (585) or without tutorial day (Temp 325) and ECS All Sessions (565) or Master Pass (745), still defines if you can follow all sessions or not, but there will be an upgrade later on that would be smaller than the difference between the current prices that would allow you to follow all sessions as well?